Nature’s Nutrient Superhero
– Vitamin C By Patrick Holford
like the guinea pig and fruit-eating bat, cannot make vitamin C and need much more when fighting an infection. Following this book, between 1972 and 1975, five placebo controlled studies giving 2 or more grams of vitamin C were published. [1gram(g) = 1,000milligram(mg)]. Pooling the results together, Professor Harri Hemila from the University of Helsinki showed that ‘there was very strong
It’s with great pleasure that I provide this article for
evidence that colds were shorter or less severe in
Jersey Life magazine, some 25 years after I held a
the vitamin C groups’ thus confirming that
workshop in Jersey after founding the Institute of
Pauling was right.
Optimum Nutrition (ION). There was a great turn out that day and I’m delighted to hear that some
But the medical establishment (aka big pharma)
of that information is still in use today!
didn’t like this and soon two ‘reviews’ came out, by Chalmers and Dykes & Meier claiming no effect.
My focus now, and for the past year since the Covid
The word went out – vitamin C doesn’t work. The
virus hit, has been raising awareness of nature’s
main flaw was that, by including very low dose
nutrient superhero – Vitamin C – to empower the
studies, down to 25mg a day, and fudging the
immune system.
maths, they could eliminate a statistical effect.
Vitamin C is far more than simply a nutrient
Professor Harri Hemila then published the most
required in tiny amounts to prevent scurvy.
comprehensive review of all studies, including a
Numerous studies reveal that many health
clear exposé of the flaws that were used to falsely
problems respond to treatment quicker and
discredit vitamin C, to tell the whole truth, and
recovery is far speedier, when you are receiving
nothing but the truth about vitamin C and colds.
adequate levels of Vitamin C. There’s no doubt that
In 2020 I published my book Flufighters and
vitamin C is gold dust for your immune system. It
initiated the VitC4Covid campaign
boosts interferon, inhibits viruses multiplying and
[www.vitaminc4covid.com] to take up the mantle
boosts the production of immune cells, including
of raising the profile of Vitamin C worldwide – for
phagocytes which attack viruses, and white blood
boosting immunity in particular for covid
cells (leucocytes). It is also a neuramidase inhibitor.
symptoms, including its use in hospitalisations.
Vitamin C Research
Dr. Pierre Kory, the Medical Director of the Trauma
In 1970 twice Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling,
and Life Support Center and Chief of the Critical
who was my teacher and patron of the Institute for
Care Service at the University of Wisconsin says “If
Optimum Nutrition, wrote a book on vitamin C
you can administer vitamin C intravenously
and the common cold, arguing that us primates,
starting in the Emergency Room and every 6
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